Selected Videos

 

Hystera Theater (2019)

A 16 MM film by My Barbarian (Alexandro Segade, Jade Gordon, Malik Gaines). A meditation on Luce Iragaray’s Plato’s Hystera, this video combines found footage, edited by Gordon, and performance footage shot and directed by Segade, with a score by Gaines. Featuring Samita Sinha, Ethan Philbrick, Somi, C. Bain, John Hoobyar and Katy Pyle. Included in the exhibition Automatisme Ambulatoire, Owens Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada.

Double Agency, A Web series & Performance by My Barbarian. Produced with the support of LACMA. Episode 1: The Viewer and the Viewed, 6:35 min, 2015, thriller (NSFW). Agent Mike Games (Malik Gaines) sets out on a mission to infiltrate the elite Non-White Commission on European Beauty and Excellence in order to use optical scanners disguised as a pair of sunglasses to dis-encrypt the messages hidden in two nineteenth century portraits, all the while being pursued by Bjorn Goldblatt (Robbie Acklen) who is pretending to be a gold statue of a faun. The Double Agency series culminates in a live performance by My Barbarian, featuring Robbie Acklen, Nao Bustamante, Jibz Cameron and Adam Dugas. Double Agency, a performance by My Barbarian Tuesday, April 28, 2015 l 7:30 p.m. LACMA, BCAM, Level 1 | Free, tickets required. Tickets: 323 857-6010 or reserve online Double Agency consists of a new episodic video series, ephemeral exhibition, and performance by My Barbarian that will unfold during the first month of celebrations for LACMA’s 50th anniversary. My Barbarian’s performances and installations have often blurred genres and mediums. In Double Agency, the group takes on espionage and spy thrillers, with a particular nod to the original Mission Impossible series, activating LACMA’s architecture and permanent collection with a storyline that features masks, doppelgangers, and shifting identities in order to dramatize tensions between artistic objects and living subjects. My Barbarian has been commissioned by the museum to produce this new work on the occasion of LACMA’s anniversary and will be present to perform a ceremonial launch of the ephemeral exhibition Masks of the World. My Barbarian is made up of Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade, although they frequently collaborate with other artists, musicians and filmmakers. Their performances, sculptures, drawings and videos have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum, Hammer Museum, San Francisco MoMA, and the ICA Philadelphia, among other venues.

Double Agency (2015)

Video series by My Barbarian (Alexandro Segade, Jade Gordon, Malik Gaines).
Commissioned for LACMA’s 50th anniversary. Double Agency activates the museum’s architecture with a spy thriller that dramatize tensions between artistic objects and living subjects. Featuring Jade Gordon, Jibz Cameron, Nao Bustamante, Robbie Acklen; music by Malik Gaines; directed by Alexandro Segade. Read about it in Artforum.

single channel video by malik gaines, alexandro segade, and robbie iesadore acklen, shot in stavanger norway.

The Legend (2015)

A video project by A.R.M. (Alexandro Segade, Robbie Acklen, Malik Gaines). Produced in residence at Rogaland Kunstcenter, Norway. Based on a text by Alexandro Segade queering Arthurian legends, this improvised performance for camera, edited to music by Malik Gaines, was presented at DD55 Gallery, Cologne, Germany.

Universal Declaration… (2013)

A Video By My Barbarian ( Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, Alexandro Segade). Exploring the figure of the mother as agent of the political and ethical imaginary the video features conceptual artists Eleanor Antin and Mary Kelly, as well as My Barbarian’s actual mothers , Barbara Gaines, Victoria Gordon, and Irina Segade. Reviews in Artforum and ArtNews.

 

The Power and the Pity (1995)

1995 video by Alexandro Segade. A group of gods who live in a penthouse visit the humans of earth and are so disgusted they send a plague down to kill them all. Made at UCLA as an undergraduate, Segade’s first video stars Trisha Donnelly, Karen Hallock, Malik Gaines, Danny MacDonald, Lisa Durbin, Michelle Premsrirat, Wen Wen Hsu, Pearl Hsiung, Keef Ward, Mateo Segade. A group of gods get mixed up with a bunch of humans, with terrible results. Kind of a musical.